lancet window

American  

noun

Architecture.

1. a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.

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lancet window British  

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: lancet.  a narrow window having a lancet arch

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Etymology

Origin of lancet window

First recorded in 1775–85

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lancet window

A stained-glass lancet window shows Christ's passion in five panels set in an interlace of jewel-like embroidery.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its catalog lists 748 items, ranging from a corroded metal pen to a whole stained-glass lancet window from Canterbury Cathedral.

From Time Magazine Archive

In each of the northern and southern walls of the choir is a lancet window; and two similar windows, but lower in height, occur in each of the eastern walls of the transept aisles. 

From The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" by Hicklin, John

The smallest is also of a very odd shape, being almost as narrow as a lancet window, with, however, a rather obtuse arch.

From The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See by Clutton-Brock, A. (Arthur)

The lancet window is now introduced, at first of only one light, very narrow and long, and differing from the Norman window in having a pointed arch.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)